Resizing/Scaling Bug Bears

[Lamont]

When resizing or rescaling images, the boxes where one puts the numbers should clear when clicking on them. As it is now, one has to highlight the current numbers and units, the delete and type the desired numbers. This is unnecessarily tedious. Also, the units should not even be displayed in the box with the numbers, since the units have their own box.

 

There should be a custom preset option. Many of us who print or who have web sites work much of the time with the same size images. We do not want to have to set up the dimensions from scratch for every picture. It just takes too much time and is irritatingly unnecessary.

 

When one changes one dimension, the other dimension is not automatically displayed, unless one closes the Resize Document window and opens it again. There is no good reason for this behavior. When I type in one dimension, the other dimension should be immediately displayed. 

 

In the Resize Document window, there should be preset options for ppi (which you call erroneously dpi). Especially this eof us who print, have pip setting they favor and having to set pip for each image is just unnecessarily tedious.

 

I would prefer the Resize Document  and Resize Canvas settings to have on one and the same settings page. if someone doesn't know the difference between image size and canvas size, having the two separate is not going to help him either.

 

If Affinity Photo is supposed to earnestly compete with the  leading professional  photo editing software, getting the basic features to work smoothly and conveniently should be, at least in my opinion, be the priority. Refine the feature set you have before throwing new often half-baked features at the users.

 

 I am interested in a stronger product with increased usability. Thank you for hopefully lending my complaints and suggestions an ear.

[Guest]

When resizing or rescaling images, the boxes where one puts the numbers should clear when clicking on them. As it is now, one has to highlight the current numbers and units, the delete and type the desired numbers. This is unnecessarily tedious.

 

One single hint … click the labels of the input boxes, and you can type in the values immediately …  :)

 

When one changes one dimension, the other dimension is not automatically displayed, unless one closes the Resize Document window and opens it again.

 

As soon as you tab or click the other numeric input, the respective value changes. But you are right, the value should change immediately …

 

There should be a custom preset option.

There should be preset options for ppi.

 

+1  :)

 

And sticky settings for the crop tool &c. … please …  ^_^

[MEB]

Hi Lamont,

Thanks for your feedback. There a couple reasons why this works differently in Affinity but there's always room to improve things.

 

When resizing or rescaling images, the boxes where one puts the numbers should clear when clicking on them. As it is now, one has to highlight the current numbers and units, the delete and type the desired numbers. This is unnecessarily tedious. Also, the units should not even be displayed in the box with the numbers, since the units have their own box.

 

You can click on the label and input directly the number as A_B_C already suggested. It's not always desirable to clean the numbers since you can perform math calculations inside the fields.

You can simply add *50% to the existing numbers to scale the image to half its size for example.

 

 

When one changes one dimension, the other dimension is not automatically displayed, unless one closes the Resize Document window and opens it again. There is no good reason for this behavior. When I type in one dimension, the other dimension should be immediately displayed. 

 

Same reason as above. You may be performing math operations rather then just replacing the existing number. The other field updates as soon as you click on it, press ⇥ (tab) or press Enter.